Research at Uppsala University
Focus of financial reporting can influence business cycles
27 December 2021. Editorial choices can impact the amplitude of business cycles even if the information that is report ...
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Protein biomarkers protect against disease development
10 December 2021. A comprehensive study from Uppsala University shows that several disease-associated protein biomarke ...
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Leadership – a key to achieving climate goals
10 December 2021. Everyone needs to be on board if climate goals are to be reached in time. Yet, the countries of the ...
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Here you will find all research projects at Uppsala University funded by the main Swedish funding bodies. The search feature is based on the SweCRIS database.
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Ersättning för Ann-Christine Syvänens uppdrag som ledamot i rådet för forskningens infrastrukturer 1 oktober - 31 december 2010.
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Research project from 2010-10-01 to 2013-12-31
Ersättning för Ann-Christine Syvänens uppdrag som ledamot i rådet för forskningens infrastrukturer 1 oktober - 31 december 2010. ...
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Ersättning för Lars Wallentins uppdrag som ledamot i rådet för forskningens infrastrukturer 2011-2013.
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Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31
Ersättning för Lars Wallentins uppdrag som ledamot i rådet för forskningens infrastrukturer 2011-2013. ...
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SWE-2012-131: The Gendered Political Economies of Coca versus Cocaine in Chapare, Bolivia
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
This project explores local understandings of the radically higher degree of transfer of surplus value from peasant families through illicit versus licit commercialization of coca and the gendered dimension ...
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"European Studies in Symbolic Interaction: Traditions, Contemporary Perspectives, and Challenges" (The IVth Annual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction)
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Research project from 2013-04-01 to 2013-12-31
The proposed conference (28-30 August 2013) will be hosted by the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University. It is intended to be an interdisciplinary venture of social and humanitarian sciences that ...
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"European Studies in Symbolic Interaction: Traditions, Contemporary Perspectives, and Challenges" (The IVth Annual Conference of the European Society for the Study of Symbolic Interaction)
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2013-12-31
The proposed conference (28-30 August 2013) will be hosted by the Department of Sociology, Uppsala University. It is intended to be an interdisciplinary venture of social and humanitarian sciences that ...
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Human resources in disability and poverty- A family perspective
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
The project is focusing on the phenomenon poverty and aims to investigate the connection between poverty and disability among families having special needs children/adolescents in Moldova and Ukraine. ...
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"Turning the Vicious Circle around. New Frontiers in the Fight against the Mafia"
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Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31
This research project explores how cooperation is established in an environment marked by distrust and non-cooperation. The research focuses on the private sector in Palermo and the cooperation that has ...
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"Unseen, unheard and unnoticed": Swedish Wildlife Photography ca 1890 - 1970
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
The project analyzes the development of wildlife photography in Sweden ca 1890 - 1970. With the purpose of outlining the historical development of the today generally accepted representational code in ...
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#ProtestBaku. Is Azerbaijan next in line for a Democratic Revolution?
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Research project from 2013-05-20 to 2013-05-22
I am applying for funds to organise an international round-table debate at the Uppsala Centre for Russian Studies on civic activism in Azerbaijan. After the so-called "colour revolutions" in other post-Soviet ...
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11th Int. Conf. on Low Energy Antiproton Physics
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2013-12-31
With this application we seek for the funds to invite world-leading experts as keynote speakers to the 11th International Conference on Low Energy Antiproton Physics (LEAP2013). This biennial event has ...
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A Comprehensive Descriptive Study of Zoroastrian Persian Works
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Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2014-12-31
Abstract The Zoroastrian Persian is a language used by Iranian Zoroastrians since the tenth A.D century to write down their works and also to translate Avestan and Parsig (Middle Persian) texts. Iranian ...
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A Forgotten Heritage of Play - tracing aspects of urbanity and masculinity through a re-contextualization of the engraved game boards at the medieval city of Vijayanagara, South India
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2013-12-31
The project aims to study nearly 1000 permanently engraved game boards at the site of Vijayanagara, South India, once the capital of a large Hindu kingdom (c. AD 1350-1565). It builds on an earlier, by ...
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A MOLECULAR UNDERSTANDING OF LIPID BASED DRUG DELIVERY - A BRIDGE FOR POORLY SOLUBLE COMPOUNDS TO REACH PHYSIOLOGICAL TARGETS
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Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2013-12-31
With 70-90% of the new drug-like molecules synthesised at date showing poor water solubility computational tools that allow predictions of the solubility and give suggestions on how to improve this property ...
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A Programming Platform for Future Wireless Sensor Networks
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Research project from 2009-01-01 to 2015-06-30
Our goal is to provide a programming environment for Wirless Sensor Network (WSN) where sensors can be programmed as an ensemble rather than individually, focusing on the services provided by the whole ...
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A Swedish infrastructure for chemical safety predictions with focus on human health
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2013-12-31
The field of chemical safety predictions aims at establishing the safety of novel chemical structures in silico, using computational models based on existing in vitro and in vivo data. The field is hampered ...
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A flexible automated cell tracking system optimized on an application basis by user-controlled feedback
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Obtaining quantitative data from live cell images is the key to understanding molecular and cellular processes. Automated microscopes enable the collection of images at a rate which outpaces researchers ...
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A genomic map to sex-specific variation in lifespan
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Research project from 2009-09-10 to 2013-12-31
Virtually all human diseases have a sex specific component, in terms of rate of occurrence, age of onset and/or severity. Understanding the causes to these differences may hold important clues to how many ...
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A human whole blood loop system for superior characterization of therapeutic antibodies
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2014-12-31
This project aims to develop of a novel human ex-vivo whole blood loop system for an improved characterization of therapeutic antibodies in order to avoid irrelevant and unnecessary animal studies. Today ...
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A longer useful life of a lithium-ion battery for hybrid vehicles
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Research project from 2011-01-01 to 2015-12-31
The iron-based rechargeable Li-ion battery has the potential to influence the development of all kinds of hybrid electric vehicles in reducing fuel consumption. The battery is environmentally benign with ...
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A model of oligotrophic bacteria with streamlined genomes for microbiology
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31
There is a current gap between molecular and ecological microbiology as the abundant and ecosystem-relevant microbes are scarcely characterized in regards to their metabolism, cell-division, expression ...
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A neuroscience perspective on anxiety and its treatment: Sex differences, serotonergic pathways and genetic factors
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Research project from 2010-09-01 to 2016-08-31
Anxiety disorders like social anxiety disorder (SAD) are very common. The aim of this project is to examine underlying neurobiological processes in anxiety and its treatment with focus on 1) Women´s increased ...
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A neuroscience perspective on anxiety and its treatment: Sex differences, serotonergic pathways and genetic factors
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Research project from 2010-09-01 to 2016-08-31
Ångest och ångestbehandling ur ett neurovetenskapligt perspektiv: Könsskillnader, serotonerga processer och genetiska faktorer ...
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A new family of single-molecule magnets: structural and magnetic characterization of self-assembled monolayers
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Research project from 2012-07-01 to 2015-06-30
The aim of the proposed project is to study the magnetism of a new family of singlemolecule magnets (SMMs), and determine how their magnetic properties are modified when interacting with the surface of ...
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A new method for extraction and upgrading of lignin
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Research project from 2012-01-31 to 2013-04-30
With the method that is presented in this application we intend to depolymerize and reduce lignin in black liquor to monomeric hydrocarbons that can be used as different green oil derivatives. Through ...
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A probabilistic study of graphs and trees
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31
The overall purpose is to develop the study of graphs through the combined use of probabilistic methods (e.g. renewal theory, Galton-Watson processes, Brownian motion, contraction method and Stein´s method ...
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ACCESS AND EXCESS; Point of Care Diagnostics and Prepackaged Drugs for Integrated Fever Management for Malaria, Pneumonia and Diarrhoea in Private Sector Drug Shops in Uganda
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
The main child killer diseases, malaria and pneumonia both present with fever and rapid breathing and overlaps with diarrhea. Without diagnostic tests health workers treat presumptively. In Uganda we have ...
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Abdominal aortic aneurysm: Aetiology, prevention and therapy
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2015-12-31
Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm (AAA) is an important health problem. Most patients have no symptoms prior to rupture, the only way to decrease mortality is to screen and treat healthy individuals. This is feasible ...
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Accelerated recursive expansions with applications in electronic structure theory
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Research project from 2013-01-01 to 2016-12-31
We propose the development of a new class of accelerated recursive expansion methods for electronic structure calculations. Our aim is to substantially reduce the computational effort required by modern ...
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Accounting Prices, Ecosystem Resilience and Sustainability
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Research project from 2012-01-01 to 2014-12-31
We model and test the theory of dynamic welfare analysis for sustainable development by studying the case of Orange basin in South Africa. The aim of the project is to estimate accounting prices for ecosystems ...
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Active Noise Control for Automotive Application
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Research project from 2010-05-01 to 2015-04-30
The project investigates and designs a multiple-input-multiple-output active noise control (MIMO-ANC) framework for the interior of car compartments. An adaptive modeling, prediction and control scheme ...
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Blocking inhibits SARS-CoV-2 infection of human cells
24 November 2021. Viruses invade our cells and turn them into virus factories. Researchers at Uppsala University, toge ...
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New method for discovery of antiviral drugs
2 August 2021. The current COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for methods to identify new or repurposed dru ...
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Helpline important for older people during the pandemic
8 July 2021. For many older individuals, the COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in the loss of daily anonymous contac ...
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